Chapter D: Appleton-Century Company

INCORPORATED
NEW YORK LONDON
1934

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY
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LIST OF STORIES

STORY PAGE

1 HOW THINGS STARTED 3

2 UMFA-UMFA AND ITCHY-SCRATCHY 10

3 FIRE! FIRE!! FIRE!!! 16

4 FROM AN AIRPLANE 20

5 REAL HISTORY BEGINS 24

6 THE PUZZLE-WRITERS 30

7 THE TOMB-BUILDERS 36

8 A RICH LAND WHERE THERE WAS NO MONEY 42

9 THE WANDERING JEWS 49

10 FAIRY-TALE GODS 56

11 A FAIRY-TALE WAR 64

12 THE KINGS OF THE JEWS 70

13 THE PEOPLE WHO MADE OUR A B C’S 74

14 HARD AS NAILS 79

15 THE CROWN OF LEAVES 84

16 A BAD BEGINNING 89

17 KINGS WITH CORKSCREW CURLS 94

18 A CITY OF WONDER AND WICKEDNESS 99

19 A SURPRISE PARTY 103

20 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD 109

21 RICH MAN, POOR MAN 114

22 ROME KICKS OUT HER KINGS 119

23 GREECE VS. PERSIA 124

24 FIGHTING MAD 132

25 ONE AGAINST A THOUSAND 137

26 THE GOLDEN AGE 143

27 WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK 151

28 WISE MEN AND OTHERWISE 156

29 A BOY KING 162

30 PICKING A FIGHT 168

31 THE BOOT KICKS AND STAMPS 173

32 THE NEW CHAMPION OF THE WORLD 177

33 THE NOBLEST ROMAN OF THEM ALL 184

34 AN EMPEROR WHO WAS MADE A GOD! 191

35 “THINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE
GLORY” 197

36 BLOOD AND THUNDER 203

37 A GOOD EMPEROR AND A BAD SON 210

38 I -- H -- -- S -- -- -- -- V -- -- -- -- -- 215

39 OUR TOUGH ANCESTORS 219

40 WHITE TOUGHS AND YELLOW TOUGHS MEET THE
CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD 225

41 NIGHTFALL 231

42 BEING GOOD 236

43 A CAMEL-DRIVER 242

44 ARABIAN DAYS 250

45 A LIGHT IN THE DARK AGES 257

46 GETTING A START 264

47 THE END OF THE WORLD 269

48 REAL CASTLES 272

49 KNIGHTS AND DAYS OF CHIVALRY 278

50 A PIRATE’S GREAT GRANDSON 284

51 A GREAT ADVENTURE 292

52 TIT-TAT-TO; THREE KINGS IN A ROW 297

53 BIBLES MADE OF STONE AND GLASS 304

54 JOHN, WHOM NOBODY LOVED 311

55 A GREAT STORY-TELLER 316

56 “THING-A-MA-JIGGER” AND “WHAT-CHER-MA-CALL-IT”;
OR, A MAGIC NEEDLE AND A MAGIC
POWDER 322

57 THELON GEST WART HATE VERWAS 327

58 OFF WITH THE OLD, ON WITH THE NEW 333

59 A SAILOR WHO FOUND A NEW WORLD 337

60 FORTUNE-HUNTERS 346

61 THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT; OR, THE SEARCH
FOR GOLD AND ADVENTURE 354

62 BORN AGAIN 359

63 CHRISTIANS QUARREL 365

64 KING ELIZABETH 372

65 THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 378

66 JAMES THE SERVANT; OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME? 384

67 A KING WHO LOST HIS HEAD 390

68 RED CAP AND RED HEELS 395

69 A SELF-MADE MAN 402

70 A PRINCE WHO RAN AWAY 407

71 AMERICA GETS RID OF HER KING 412

72 UPSIDE DOWN 420

73 A LITTLE GIANT 428

74 FROM PAN AND HIS PIPES TO THE PHONOGRAPH 435

75 THE DAILY PAPERS OF 1854-1865 443

76 THREE NEW POSTAGE STAMPS 449

77 THE AGE OF MIRACLES 454

78 GERMANY FIGHTS THE WORLD 460

79 YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND TO-MORROW 465

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It is for that old man or woman--twenty,
thirty, or forty years old, who may peek
into this book; and is what they would
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